What do you DO when someone is 'creepy' and you suspect that they might be thinking of offing everyone in the cubes around them? I mean you can't really take action on that. It's not like you can get them fired for "being creepy" and that's probably only going to set them off.
Plus, there are SO many 'disgruntled' employees, who exhibit all of the signs listed (poor performance, always angry, etc etc) that how are you going to know which one will snap? Of course, I work in a large company of around 5000 employees, so it would be different if there were only 10 employees, but then in a small company people are probably a lot less likely to get disgruntled because they wouldn't feel as under appreciated or at least not as alienated...
Hmm... On the other hand if, as you say, the "artists may get exposure from such tapes", and in the same sentence say that the RIAA doesn't get profits, then how does the artist benefit from the increased exposure? I assume by the benefit of increased exposure you're claiming increased current or future record sales, then by definition the RIAA is benefiting too.
So.... what I'm getting at is that the RIAA does profit from these mixtapes, but since they didn't control their creation, they are like children destroying someone else's art.
First of all, not sure why this was modded as funny.
Second of all, it would only show up as a PayPal transaction on your "real" bank account IF you didn't have a paypal balance. If you have a paypal account with an actual balance, it would just come out of there. So YES, it would show up still as a transaction, but only on your PayPal account, so the wife doesn't see your pr0n amazon purchases.
Ummmm... typical of a slashdot comment, all that exists is the backbone providers and home users, eh? What about enormous LANs in high-bandwidth settings? Hospitals, publishing companies, graphics design companies, audio engineering companies, research facilities, these are just a VERY few examples of places that would benefit from this.
And with 6-mile over single-mode fiber, even places with multiple physical sites can benefit. Warehouse is 9 miles away you say? Well, just stick in a device to condition and amplify the signal, and send it on it's way again.
Umm... I wonder what she had to say about Wired's website.... Maybe she couldnt even say anything because she was too busy using a dremel tool on her eyeballs.
In addition to other comments, Vista has a new feature (I forget what they call it) that allows you to plug in a USB or Firewire flash drive, and tell it to do page swapping to it. WAY higher performance than a swap file. Actually looks like a cool feature, one of the only things so far I've seen about Vista where I was like "hey, thats actually a good idea".
So maybe the drive wont do this "natively", and you have to tell Vista to use the flash rom on the drive?
Google refuses to list the areas where this is available. In their Help page, it says to find out where its available, go to that location and tell it to 'Show Traffic Info', and it will tell if you if it's not available...
How helpful! Especially since their dang fake cell phone demo that they make you go to doesn't even seem to work correctly, so I cant even tell.
Anyone have a list of cities where this is available?
From the wikipedia article on Morgellon's Disease:
The Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly describes the same symptoms to a surprising degree. The upcoming release of a film based on the book has led many to suggest that the recent 'buzz' about Morgellon's may be part of a viral marketing campaign. Evidence cited includes:
1. The website claims that a "national news broadcast" will occur in June or July. The release date for the film is July 7.
2. morgellons.org and morgellonusa.com are both registered by a proxy company and contain no contact info.
3. The first Morgellon's article on Wikipedia was created in February as a link to one of the above websites.
While there were infrequent references to the syndrome on Usenet as far back as 2002, the simultaneous 'ramp-up' on Morgellons and marketing of the film have made some suspicious. For another well known example of this, see the ilovebees viral marketing campaign.
On the other hand... IIRC, that movie also included the existence of a point-and-click visual backdoor to hack whatever agency was chasing her. I remember thinking how ridiculous it was that there was an actual tiny image way down in the corner of the screen on their website and then Sandra Bullock used her l33t hax0ring skillz to see it and click on it, and thusly hacking into the super secret agency or corporation or whatever.
I feel like I also remember her doing this all from a floppy disk somehow...
Anyone heard of it? Or Google? Type "unlocked GSM phone" into Google and you will find myriads of sites who would love to sell you a GSM phone, including this one, which is not, btw, nearly as great as the author thinks, there are tons of better phones which are just as simple, cheap, and reliable. Also, it won't be locked to your (and my) crappy provider.
Just because the phone isn't on the (very) short list of phones locked and stripped of features by a US wireless provider doesn't mean you can't get it in the US. In most larger cities, you can even buy them from independent stores. With GSM you just pop in your SIM card and away you go. Just make sure to buy one which supports 850/1900 if you're in the US. Much of Cingular runs on 1900, but there are areas that only use 850.
Have you checked out the SlingBox from Sling Media: http://www.slingmedia.com/ ?? It's kind of the opposite of what you're looking for in implementation, but it can accomplish similar ends...
These things are great. You basically plug in your AV and network, and it streams media from whichever input you select (it supports mutiple). The cool part is that the software (yes, unfortunately it requires a client, downloadable from their site - Windows only I believe) lets you select different remotes and it has mutiple IR transmitters running to each of your home theater devices. So say you switch to you DVD player input, the remote in the software changes to your DVD player remote (even emulates the brand and shape, layout, etc) and voila, you can play DVDs from your changer. Then switch inputs to your cable box, and watch streaming live cable TV, change channels, etc - even watch movies on OnDemand and the like.
It actually does a great job with the streaming as well, it will sync with the software client and they'll negotiate an optimal encoding and compression rate based on your connection. You can also set it to a hard setting, but this is nice because it will account for busier or slower network times, if say, you happen to be watching at work;) It also has some sort of registration with a central server, if you are on a DHCP connection it will report it's IP, etc, so you have basically an ID that you enter in the client viewer, and it connects to your box no matter where it is or what IP it currently has. Tin-foil hat crowd need not apply.
I unfortunately don't own one, but a guy I work with has one and he's showed me all of this. I think they run $300. The real caveats are really just the reliance on a Windows client, which isn't a huge deal to me as I would only really use it from machines at places like work, laptop while traveling, friend's houses, etc. I realize that they dont' playback of computer video files to a TV, but it's still a really cool device along similar lines....
Are people doing that?? I mean, creating their own shows and distributing them for iPod users? I didn't even know you could podcast video, although it certainly makes sense to be able to. If this does exist already, do you have any suggestions for some good shows to check out?
This is possibly one of the most ignorant postings I've ever read, and not just because it's in re: to my comment, I just re-read this thread as if I was not involved...
I think your own words expose your extreme ignorance enough as it is, but two things I will comment on for the record:
1) you think I have anything to do with money-grubbing corporations? I work a state job!
2) because I said cheers, you think I'm not even american? born and raised and currently live in the midwest, couldnt get much more american than that;)
and I guess I'm not so sure how democrats vs republicans got involved.. but that is typical of a right-wing neocon extremist, to use absolutely every opportunity possible to try to take a low jab at the left!
No, if you bothered to read before posting you'd see that Osirix has a button on it specifically for exporting to and importing from the iPod. Yes, technically the iPod is acting as a firewire drive, but the software has a special interface specifically for dealing with the iPod that makes using the iPod much easier than reading/writing files on an external disk.
Oh WOW, so it's handled just slightly differently than writing to a generic disk, let's put it on CNN!!
Wrong again. My girlfriend is a surgical resident and she brings home CT and MRI films all the time to prepare for the next day's cases. There is no difference between bringing home digital radiology data and bringing home the actual films. In fact, films are less private because you can just hold them up to the light and see the patient's name.
I beg to differ. Just because your girlfriend is a resident (so she's been a doctor what now, two, three years?) and she does it, doesn't automatically mean it's not a confidentiality issue. Can she carry around films for 600 patients? If she could, would it be easily lost/stolen? I don't think so. The iPods could have patient data of hundreds, even thousands of patients, in the size of a deck of cards (in a device that is pretty often stolen). That is a HUGE problem. You clearly don't work in this industry, or you'd have a better understanding of just how incredibly important it is to protect patient data. You can imagine the lawsuits...
Wrong yet again. There is no criminal liability for losing patient data. There can be criminal liability for gross negligence, in theory, but carrying films home would never qualify as gross negligence.
Wrong yet again. There IS criminal liability. I don't have time or patience to look through the enormous HIPAA regs, but I clearly recall that that is how it is. Obviously I have a vested interest in knowing this. The law basically states that if you have patient data in electronic form and it is not protected by reasonable means, which is now fairly clearly defined to be password protection and encryption, especially for removable media, then you are not in compliance. Maybe you haven't looked for a few years, since before these more concrete guidelines were developed? Or at all?
Yeah, because typos never, ever happen. Ever.
No, this is just a clear example of poor fact-checking, sloppy, haphazard reporting.
Conclusion: Parent poster is an idiot and a fearmonger. No, you should not be scared any more than you were scared before that bullshit HIPAA law got passed in the first place.
Oh yes, clearly I'm just an idiot and fearmonger. Because I raise very valid concerns, oh yea and I'm completely uneducated too. Uh-huh. Just because. Resorting to namecalling eh? That certainly sheds some light on your intelligence and maturity levels.
Not quite sure what my statement really has to do with the passing of HIPAA, either, I don't follow you there. But, you are easy to just pass it off as "bullshit" without really understanding it obviously. Trust me, it is a huge pain in the ass, you wouldn't believe the hoops we jump through to comply, BUT it is a very important law for protecting YOUR identity, which most/.'ers actually care about slightly. Just don't complain the next time you get passed over for a job because the employer finds out you have disease X.
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Fair enough... BUT
What do you DO when someone is 'creepy' and you suspect that they might be thinking of offing everyone in the cubes around them? I mean you can't really take action on that. It's not like you can get them fired for "being creepy" and that's probably only going to set them off.
Plus, there are SO many 'disgruntled' employees, who exhibit all of the signs listed (poor performance, always angry, etc etc) that how are you going to know which one will snap? Of course, I work in a large company of around 5000 employees, so it would be different if there were only 10 employees, but then in a small company people are probably a lot less likely to get disgruntled because they wouldn't feel as under appreciated or at least not as alienated...
OK, this is not a joke or flamebait, is it possible that he simply got sick of corporate life and wanted to live 'off the grid' ??
I mean, it's possible, just throwin it out there. Doubtful, but possible.
If it's not the case, then I sure hope he turns up OK.
And not a single one of them gets smoked without first emptying the contents and refilling it with a different substance ;)
Hmm... On the other hand if, as you say, the "artists may get exposure from such tapes", and in the same sentence say that the RIAA doesn't get profits, then how does the artist benefit from the increased exposure? I assume by the benefit of increased exposure you're claiming increased current or future record sales, then by definition the RIAA is benefiting too.
So.... what I'm getting at is that the RIAA does profit from these mixtapes, but since they didn't control their creation, they are like children destroying someone else's art.
First of all, not sure why this was modded as funny.
Second of all, it would only show up as a PayPal transaction on your "real" bank account IF you didn't have a paypal balance. If you have a paypal account with an actual balance, it would just come out of there. So YES, it would show up still as a transaction, but only on your PayPal account, so the wife doesn't see your pr0n amazon purchases.
Ummmm... typical of a slashdot comment, all that exists is the backbone providers and home users, eh? What about enormous LANs in high-bandwidth settings? Hospitals, publishing companies, graphics design companies, audio engineering companies, research facilities, these are just a VERY few examples of places that would benefit from this.
And with 6-mile over single-mode fiber, even places with multiple physical sites can benefit. Warehouse is 9 miles away you say? Well, just stick in a device to condition and amplify the signal, and send it on it's way again.
sheesh
yes yes, get it out of your systems
It's called caffeine :)
Umm... I wonder what she had to say about Wired's website.... Maybe she couldnt even say anything because she was too busy using a dremel tool on her eyeballs.
In addition to other comments, Vista has a new feature (I forget what they call it) that allows you to plug in a USB or Firewire flash drive, and tell it to do page swapping to it. WAY higher performance than a swap file. Actually looks like a cool feature, one of the only things so far I've seen about Vista where I was like "hey, thats actually a good idea".
So maybe the drive wont do this "natively", and you have to tell Vista to use the flash rom on the drive?
I wonder how long before someone on /. chooses Elmo Thorkmorton as a nick.
Google refuses to list the areas where this is available. In their Help page, it says to find out where its available, go to that location and tell it to 'Show Traffic Info', and it will tell if you if it's not available...
How helpful! Especially since their dang fake cell phone demo that they make you go to doesn't even seem to work correctly, so I cant even tell.
Anyone have a list of cities where this is available?
Meh... I remember a while back being told that CD burning would never be faster than 8x due to physical limitations...
From the wikipedia article on Morgellon's Disease:
The Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly describes the same symptoms to a surprising degree. The upcoming release of a film based on the book has led many to suggest that the recent 'buzz' about Morgellon's may be part of a viral marketing campaign. Evidence cited includes:
1. The website claims that a "national news broadcast" will occur in June or July. The release date for the film is July 7.
2. morgellons.org and morgellonusa.com are both registered by a proxy company and contain no contact info.
3. The first Morgellon's article on Wikipedia was created in February as a link to one of the above websites.
While there were infrequent references to the syndrome on Usenet as far back as 2002, the simultaneous 'ramp-up' on Morgellons and marketing of the film have made some suspicious. For another well known example of this, see the ilovebees viral marketing campaign.
Just another angle on this whole thing...
Fair enough.
On the other hand... IIRC, that movie also included the existence of a point-and-click visual backdoor to hack whatever agency was chasing her. I remember thinking how ridiculous it was that there was an actual tiny image way down in the corner of the screen on their website and then Sandra Bullock used her l33t hax0ring skillz to see it and click on it, and thusly hacking into the super secret agency or corporation or whatever.
I feel like I also remember her doing this all from a floppy disk somehow...
meh
the banner ad flashing at me on the top of the Slashdot homepage is... Splunk. {sigh}
Anyone heard of it? Or Google? Type "unlocked GSM phone" into Google and you will find myriads of sites who would love to sell you a GSM phone, including this one, which is not, btw, nearly as great as the author thinks, there are tons of better phones which are just as simple, cheap, and reliable. Also, it won't be locked to your (and my) crappy provider.
Just because the phone isn't on the (very) short list of phones locked and stripped of features by a US wireless provider doesn't mean you can't get it in the US. In most larger cities, you can even buy them from independent stores. With GSM you just pop in your SIM card and away you go. Just make sure to buy one which supports 850/1900 if you're in the US. Much of Cingular runs on 1900, but there are areas that only use 850.
I'll be sleeping in the hallway...
Have you checked out the SlingBox from Sling Media: http://www.slingmedia.com/ ?? It's kind of the opposite of what you're looking for in implementation, but it can accomplish similar ends...
;) It also has some sort of registration with a central server, if you are on a DHCP connection it will report it's IP, etc, so you have basically an ID that you enter in the client viewer, and it connects to your box no matter where it is or what IP it currently has. Tin-foil hat crowd need not apply.
These things are great. You basically plug in your AV and network, and it streams media from whichever input you select (it supports mutiple). The cool part is that the software (yes, unfortunately it requires a client, downloadable from their site - Windows only I believe) lets you select different remotes and it has mutiple IR transmitters running to each of your home theater devices. So say you switch to you DVD player input, the remote in the software changes to your DVD player remote (even emulates the brand and shape, layout, etc) and voila, you can play DVDs from your changer. Then switch inputs to your cable box, and watch streaming live cable TV, change channels, etc - even watch movies on OnDemand and the like.
It actually does a great job with the streaming as well, it will sync with the software client and they'll negotiate an optimal encoding and compression rate based on your connection. You can also set it to a hard setting, but this is nice because it will account for busier or slower network times, if say, you happen to be watching at work
I unfortunately don't own one, but a guy I work with has one and he's showed me all of this. I think they run $300. The real caveats are really just the reliance on a Windows client, which isn't a huge deal to me as I would only really use it from machines at places like work, laptop while traveling, friend's houses, etc. I realize that they dont' playback of computer video files to a TV, but it's still a really cool device along similar lines....
Are people doing that?? I mean, creating their own shows and distributing them for iPod users? I didn't even know you could podcast video, although it certainly makes sense to be able to. If this does exist already, do you have any suggestions for some good shows to check out?
This is possibly one of the most ignorant postings I've ever read, and not just because it's in re: to my comment, I just re-read this thread as if I was not involved...
;)
I think your own words expose your extreme ignorance enough as it is, but two things I will comment on for the record:
1) you think I have anything to do with money-grubbing corporations? I work a state job!
2) because I said cheers, you think I'm not even american? born and raised and currently live in the midwest, couldnt get much more american than that
and I guess I'm not so sure how democrats vs republicans got involved.. but that is typical of a right-wing neocon extremist, to use absolutely every opportunity possible to try to take a low jab at the left!
Show me a single site that allows digital CR images to be read at less than 2MP, or even 3MP! That would be a hospital to avoid at all costs...
No, if you bothered to read before posting you'd see that Osirix has a button on it specifically for exporting to and importing from the iPod. Yes, technically the iPod is acting as a firewire drive, but the software has a special interface specifically for dealing with the iPod that makes using the iPod much easier than reading/writing files on an external disk.
/.'ers actually care about slightly. Just don't complain the next time you get passed over for a job because the employer finds out you have disease X.
Oh WOW, so it's handled just slightly differently than writing to a generic disk, let's put it on CNN!!
Wrong again. My girlfriend is a surgical resident and she brings home CT and MRI films all the time to prepare for the next day's cases. There is no difference between bringing home digital radiology data and bringing home the actual films. In fact, films are less private because you can just hold them up to the light and see the patient's name.
I beg to differ. Just because your girlfriend is a resident (so she's been a doctor what now, two, three years?) and she does it, doesn't automatically mean it's not a confidentiality issue. Can she carry around films for 600 patients? If she could, would it be easily lost/stolen? I don't think so. The iPods could have patient data of hundreds, even thousands of patients, in the size of a deck of cards (in a device that is pretty often stolen). That is a HUGE problem. You clearly don't work in this industry, or you'd have a better understanding of just how incredibly important it is to protect patient data. You can imagine the lawsuits...
Wrong yet again. There is no criminal liability for losing patient data. There can be criminal liability for gross negligence, in theory, but carrying films home would never qualify as gross negligence.
Wrong yet again. There IS criminal liability. I don't have time or patience to look through the enormous HIPAA regs, but I clearly recall that that is how it is. Obviously I have a vested interest in knowing this. The law basically states that if you have patient data in electronic form and it is not protected by reasonable means, which is now fairly clearly defined to be password protection and encryption, especially for removable media, then you are not in compliance. Maybe you haven't looked for a few years, since before these more concrete guidelines were developed? Or at all?
Yeah, because typos never, ever happen. Ever.
No, this is just a clear example of poor fact-checking, sloppy, haphazard reporting.
Conclusion: Parent poster is an idiot and a fearmonger. No, you should not be scared any more than you were scared before that bullshit HIPAA law got passed in the first place.
Oh yes, clearly I'm just an idiot and fearmonger. Because I raise very valid concerns, oh yea and I'm completely uneducated too. Uh-huh. Just because. Resorting to namecalling eh? That certainly sheds some light on your intelligence and maturity levels.
Not quite sure what my statement really has to do with the passing of HIPAA, either, I don't follow you there. But, you are easy to just pass it off as "bullshit" without really understanding it obviously. Trust me, it is a huge pain in the ass, you wouldn't believe the hoops we jump through to comply, BUT it is a very important law for protecting YOUR identity, which most
cheers
Go look at the product page for OsiriX, go to screenshots, and you will find pictures (and movie clips) of medical images being VIEWED on the iPod.
To sum up, RTFA. (because it does actually say in the article as well that they can view now on the photo ipods)
Actually the article is wrong. It's 'DICOM'. Go look it up.